Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

My parents, had they still been alive today, would now both be in their late 90s and so they were of a generation that grew up without TV. For them, as for millions of others of theirs and similar generations, home entertainment meant listening to the radio and playing records on a gramophone or recordContinue reading “Sermon for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 18) 16th October 2022”

Last Sunday, at our Harvest Festival, the theme of our services in church, and of my sermon, was thanksgiving. And that’s a theme that carries over to this Sunday too because our Gospel reading this morning is the story of Jesus healing the ten lepers, of whom only one is grateful enough for what JesusContinue reading “Sermon for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 17), 9th October 2022”

One of the things that the Church has done throughout its history is to Christianise pagan festivals, to take over pagan festivals and supplant them with Christian festivals, and one example of that is the festival we’re celebrating today, Harvest Festival. We don’t know when or where people first held thanksgiving celebrations for a goodContinue reading “Sermon for Harvest Thanksgiving, 2nd October 2022”